Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-14

I mercAess e4ercIse or lIs powers. MT. Dal l four will stand by the police and will gram
 no inquiry into the affair at Mitchelstowr I except such an official investigation as caI | be guided by the Dublin execution. Mir
 Balfour will go to Dublin tomorrow to con I fer with the executive and will return to 1 London on Saturday when he will go tc 1 Scotland to spend the recess. MT. Glad stone has returned to Hawarden. Addresses from Liberal associations throughout the country urge MT. Gladstone to demand full l inquiry into the Mitchelstown affair. Earl Spencer has gone to his seat in Norfolk. Sir William Vernon Harcourt will start to-mor- | row for New Forest.
 NO TRIAL RAGE YESTERDAY. The Yachts BeeaImed Before Half tn e Course is Done and the Race Is Declar- edOf
 NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-The yachts Volun-
 teer and Mayfower were beealmed before
 they had sailed over half the course to-day
 and the judges had to postpone the race.
 The morning was gloomy and mist hung
 over the bay. Over fifty vessels gathered at the
 point of start, among them the Thistle, the
 Electra carrying the judges and the Atlantic.
 The proposed course was over the regular New
 York Yacht club course. Captain Lew
 Townes handled the wheel of the Mayfower
 and Joe Ellsworth was aboard as a sort of
 pilot. Captain Hank Half steered the Vol
 unteer and General Paine and Designer Bur
 gess were on board. The signal to start was
 given at 10:40 a. m. and the contestants
 crossed the line follows: Volunteer
 10:41:2S 25, Mayfower 10:41:37. The wind.
 such as it was, was east-northeast and the
 tide was ebb. The Volunteer at once drew
 away from the Mayfower and in half mile
 had lead of five hundred feet. Then the
 Mayhower drew up. This continued for
 long time, the Volunteer getting decided lead only to be overhauled
 by the Mayfower, The breeze remained light and fckle and the yachts jibed frequent ly and set spinnakers and balloon jib topsails while keeping their club topsails. In the nine and half miles run to buoy No. 10 the racers were never more than quarter of 8 mile apart and when they finally came to an- chor off Sandy Hook beach because there was not enough wind to enable them to stem the flood tide which had set in from the out- side and was running like mill race up the beach they were so close together that a bis- cult could almost have been tossed from one deck to the other. The yachts had sailed eleven miles in 4h. I'm. The judges decided that the race was off and that the next would be on Thursday over a course twenty miles to windward and return from the Scotland lightship. The Thistle came out from her moorings at Tompkinsville, s. l., as the racers were about to start and with the help of puff of wind that the others did not get she passed both a half mile from the line. Then the Volunteer passed her and the May flower caught up. But the Thistle had no balloon jib set nor did she use spinnaker while her main sheet was hauled so far aft that her racing capacity could not be meas ured. During the first hour of the race the Scotch boat passed under the stern of the May flower, took up position eastward and passed both the white boats. In turn they both passed her, and although the Thistle soon set balloon on the jibtopsail stay, the Volunteer and Mayfower left her behiHd. At buoy 10 the racers were more than two miles away from the Thistle, which | was sailing straight out to sea. Absolutely nothing could be judged of the Thistle's qualities from what she did to day. MT. Bell Mr. Clark and Designer Watson were aboard I Ter and Captain Barr was in charge. The Mayfower and the Volunteer were lowed pack to Bay Ridge The committee have ! notified the captains of the yachts that on Thursday they may deem it necessary to l ,hange or shorten the course end have issued I code of special signals to be used in that l went.